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  • Threska - Monday, May 8, 2023 - link

    Plus less chance of China trying to claim your country, like Taiwan.
  • Wereweeb - Monday, May 8, 2023 - link

    You mean Continental China?
  • Threska - Monday, May 8, 2023 - link

    Well there goes mah tableware.

    https://continentalchina.co.za/
  • Khato - Monday, May 8, 2023 - link

    Here I thought that's what Samsung was betting on happening to Taiwan within the next 5 years in order to surpass TSMC.
  • Santoval - Tuesday, May 16, 2023 - link

    If that happened semiconductor prices, particularly of cutting edge parts, would go through the roof and then some, which would hike inflation globally even further.
    Samsung and Intel alone cannot meet the global silicon demand. Not by a long shot. This is why TSMC is gradually decentralizing from Taiwan. They see the writing on the wall...
  • dotjaz - Tuesday, May 9, 2023 - link

    How stupid are you? When has China ever claimed South Korea?
  • dotjaz - Tuesday, May 9, 2023 - link

    South Korea has no strategic, economic (considering the sanctions and trade loss) or military value to China whatsoever. China need either Japan, Taiwan or the Philippines. Taiwan is the obvious choice since both sides are still claiming entire China and they are still technically at war.

    Taking South Korea without also taking Japan is utterly useless for China.
  • Santoval - Tuesday, May 16, 2023 - link

    (Though this is off topic for this website) if China invaded Japan we would come to the brink of WW3, since Japan is protected like a precious 人形 (Japanese doll) by the USA.

    But the USA would never risk WW3 for Taiwan, and they have never suggested they would. China would also never invade South Korea directly, but they might support North Korea if Kim or one of his descendants attacked the South.

    Or not, since culturally the Chinese hate abrupt changes of power and instability. They prefer to expand their influence globally via soft economic power (Silk & Road).
  • Santoval - Tuesday, May 16, 2023 - link

    p.s. *If* Biden's 10-year massive Chips Act delivers, for domestic R&D and many more fabs on US soil, it will render Taiwan less "silicon strategic" in roughly a decade.

    That's a big "if" though, since if he is replaced by a GOP President they might pull the plug on it just because it was Biden's baby, despite being the smartest Act the United States have passed -at least in terms of self-suffiency and semiconductor security- in half a century.

    However Ego and petty politics are beyond reason and even beyond 'national security'...
  • jjjag - Tuesday, May 9, 2023 - link

    They said "trying to claim" not claim. And it was during the Korean War. It's well known that China, through the Soviets, were trying to "communize" the whole world and take everything they could. China was weak in 1950 having just come from a civil war, and didn't get South Korea. Later they tried again and won in Vietnam (and Laos for that matter).
  • Wereweeb - Monday, May 8, 2023 - link

    So the management is aiming for unrealistic goals and setting themselves up to lose their best employees to burnout, got it.
  • Santoval - Tuesday, May 16, 2023 - link

    Ambition is good if it steps on solid ground, otherwise it is wishful thinking.
    I saw no mention of capacity in the entire article, which is what truly matters.
    Even if they have a slight tech edge due to earlier GAA deployment if TSMC have 3 or 4 times their capacity in 5 years they will still get the lion's share of orders, like they do now.
  • del42sa - Monday, May 8, 2023 - link

    I believe it when I see it .-)
  • Threska - Tuesday, May 9, 2023 - link

    It'll be a win for the world at large by having safe sources for high tech chips so no one will be held hostage to a certain nation state's whims.
  • shabby - Monday, May 8, 2023 - link

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  • ikjadoon - Tuesday, May 9, 2023 - link

    These PR statements are only useful for the laughs they'll get after they fail. Might as well add 5-10 *more* years to these claims.

    How these statements sound to me:

    Intel will also beat TSMC. But Samsung isn't talking about Intel—yet. Will Intel beat Samsung, too, or just TSMC? No, TSMC will beat Intel, but not Samsung. Samsung will beat Intel, but only if they don't beat TSMC.

    Pat Gelsinger, Kye Hyun Kyung, etc. the same breed of PR salesmen that don't want to admit how far behind they truly are.

    Ship your product FIRST and then we'll talk.
  • Santoval - Tuesday, May 16, 2023 - link

    “Meanwhile, Samsung's latest Galaxy S23-series uses Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC is made by TSMC on its N4 fabrication process.”

    Globally rather than a dual offering like with previous Galace S models ha? Not exactly the best advertisement for your own foundry.

    Ambition is good though, and if they can deliver on it the competition will drive down prices and increase innovation. Even if they have an edge on process node tech (I mean their GAA tech, not PPA) though what truly matters in this game is capacity.

    Can they "outperform" TSMC on capacity? That's a tall order...

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